Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For if a garage habitually does half the service its costs are very much lower than if it has done the full service ; and since it can charge the full price , because of the ignorance of the consumer , its pro fits are maximised when it does as little of the service as it can get away with . |
| 2 | That did n't help the Black Destroyer , certainly , but it died because I made a mistake , and my power is so strong that when it goes wrong , which is seldom but not never , even those things I have invested with great protective power become vulnerable . |
| 3 | ‘ No , it 's not the cab , Mr Fitzroy , so much as where it 's been . ’ |
| 4 | It was potentially extremely dangerous and although it had survived since the war it may have been very unstable . |
| 5 | He guided Alexandra out of the kitchen and along a passage so dark that if it had not been for his hand on her elbow , she would not have known where she was going . |
| 6 | The director then comes up with an interpretation which claims that the dust is so fine that when it enters the lungs it is exhaled again . |
| 7 | He hauled the front door open so hard that when it hit the stop the stained-glass panel shattered . |
| 8 | ‘ Jill Jones 's album had been on the shelf for so long that when it did come out , it sounded old , ’ she reveals . |
| 9 | Many firms find that the implementation process is not merely complex but that it amplifies strains in the internal politics . |
| 10 | In a climate where what is thought is less important than that it does not deviate from what it is ‘ correct ’ to think , the use of grids can illuminate the unique aspects of individual insight . |
| 11 | The air is so thin that when it reaches the highest point medical staff in white coats appear in the carriages to administer oxygen to passengers struck down by the altitude . |
| 12 | Remember that Dickens was writing before Freud had begun to uncover the immense complexity of the human personality , before William James 's pioneering work on consciousness , which showed that our conscious mind is not solid but that it runs like a stream , swirling endlessly around symbols , associations from the past ; always moving , never at rest . |
| 13 | These data suggest that the state 's contribution of resources to elderly households through the provision of support services is , for most services , not substantial and that it varies with the type of household . |
| 14 | You 're not gon na say Rose that you 're not satisfied and unless it improves in the next week or so , if you will have , . |
| 15 | It is likely that certain crimes have increased not because people have become more dishonest but because it has become easier to commit such crimes . |
| 16 | However , in the event you are not likely to want to do that , the embroidery usually looks delightfully spontaneous and if it does n't balance you can generally add an extra petal to help it out . |
| 17 | What is the Government 's attitude to Labour 's proposal for a defence diversification agency , bearing in mind that if it were so easy to create jobs through a Government agency , it is surprising that Labour has always left behind more unemployed than when it took office . |
| 18 | It examines whether the shareholders of the acquiring firms gain from the takeover because their firm has become more efficient or because it has become more powerful and monopolistic . |
| 19 | A dismissal may be unfair either because it was procedurally arbitrary or because it lacked good cause . |
| 20 | That , for some reason , almost made him give up , not the pain , but the familiar bit of furniture , the bed he had slept in for fifteen years , now hopelessly astray and as it seemed attacking him . |
| 21 | although having said that I 'll know that if I do well its mine , its in my own , own work , which I think is probably better because when it comes to it you do n't get any help on the day do ya ? |
| 22 | Now this when when it comes at the end of a word |
| 23 | The services offered are often generic and when it comes to competing for work from the SSD , ‘ being a Jack of all trades does n't fit easily into the contracting culture ’ . |
| 24 | His father 's face was as red as if it had been turned inside out . |
| 25 | The front of the jeep was as clean as if it had just come off the boat from Japan . |
| 26 | This section is for permanent residents ; I brought you here first because if it had got out that you had been here and had n't seen this lot my life would n't have been worth living . |
| 27 | It follows that a household will spend more on consumption if it lives in a neighbourhood in which its income is relatively low than if it lives in a neighbourhood in which its income is relatively high . |
| 28 | To confuse the order of these levels or to omit one or more of them is dangerous — not because our faith is then invalid but because it does not rest on the strongest available foundations . |
| 29 | It further reported that membership was over 100 and when it reached 150 , subscriptions would be increased . |
| 30 | Dogs , like men , can look very different but when it comes to sex they all know that they are members of one species and they are not culturally inhibited from taking appropriate action . |